Indian Prophets, 1800-1850
Whenever cultures are under stress, from things such as illness, warfare, and rapid social change, there are often individuals who report having visions of the […]
Whenever cultures are under stress, from things such as illness, warfare, and rapid social change, there are often individuals who report having visions of the […]
For thousands of years the 1,242-mile-long Columbia River has been central to the lives of the Indian people of the Columbia Plateau region. The river […]
In 1967 the Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River was completed in the traditional territory of the Crow Indians in Montana. The dam was named […]
Three hundred years ago, in 1712, the European invasion of North America was underway. In the Southeast and the Southwest, the Spanish were establishing land […]
Following World War II, the United States was faced with the problem of paying for the war and rebuilding the shattered economies of Germany and […]
During the seventeenth century Europeans wrote a number of books about American Indians which both created and perpetuated many of the common stereotypes and misconceptions […]
At the time of the European invasion, Indian cultures differed greatly from their European counterparts in the ways in which they governed themselves. The governments […]
In 2011, the Altria Group, the parent company of the tobacco company Philip Morris, released a white paper urging the state of New York to […]
The debate over marriage in American society and the fears expressed by some conservatives that allowing diversity will somehow destroy the institution of marriage has […]